US 11,923,524 B2
Cooling module for a cell stack, and a cell stack
Torsten Stifel, Haigerloch (DE); Björn Betz, Trochtelfingen (DE); Martina Bulat, Stuttgart (DE); Stefan Dwenger, Reutlingen (DE); Matthias Biegerl, Nürtingen (DE); Melanie Kemnitz, Limburg (DE); Christian Wörsdörfer, Runkel-Dehrn (DE); and Holger Keller, Weilburg-Waldhausen (DE)
Assigned to ElringKlinger AG, Dettingen (DE)
Filed by ElringKlinger AG, Dettingen (DE)
Filed on Jun. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/904,766.
Application 16/904,766 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2018/085317, filed on Dec. 17, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2017 223 476.8 (DE), filed on Dec. 20, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0321671 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. H01M 10/6557 (2014.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/63 (2014.01); H01M 10/647 (2014.01); H01M 10/6555 (2014.01); H01M 10/6567 (2014.01); H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/211 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); H01M 50/291 (2021.01); H01M 50/293 (2021.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 10/6557 (2015.04) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/63 (2015.04); H01M 10/647 (2015.04); H01M 10/6555 (2015.04); H01M 10/6567 (2015.04); H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/211 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); H01M 50/291 (2021.01); H01M 50/293 (2021.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooling module for a cell stack, the cooling module comprising:
a cooling element for receiving and passing on a coolant, wherein
the cooling module includes a carrier element to which the cooling element is fixed,
the carrier element is or includes an injection moulded plastics element that is fixed to the cooling element by being moulded onto the cooling element, wherein the carrier element is a frame element that surrounds the cooling element in a peripheral direction,
the carrier element includes one or more side parts that each include one or more compensation regions,
the one or more compensation regions are elastically deformable in the peripheral direction of the carrier element,
the one or more side parts include or form one or more outer wall portions of the frame, and
at least one of the outer wall portions of the frame element has an undulating form.